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Luke the Historian of Israel's Legacy, Theologian of Israel's 'christ': A New Reading of the 'gospel Acts' of Luke

by David Paul Moessner
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783110610437
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: de Gruyter
  • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter
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  • Pages: 385
  • Original Price: USD 39.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 595 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament, Christianity / History, and Christianity / Literature & the Arts

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David Moessner unveils a new understanding of Luke's own intentions for expanding the "narrative" of the "many" to a two-volume rendering of "events that have come to fruition" (Luke 1:1) that opens up a whole new reading of Luke's foundational contribution to the New Testament. For postmodern readers who find Acts a 'generic outlier, ' dangling tenuously somewhere between the 'mainland' of the evangelists and the 'Peloponnese' of Paul--diffused and confused and shunted to the backwaters of the New Testament by these signature corpora--Moessner plunges his readers into the hermeneutical atmosphere of Greek narrative poetics and elaboration of multi-volume works to inhale the rhetorical swells that animate Luke's first readers in their engagement of his narrative. In this collection of twelve of his essays, re-contextualized and re-organized into five major topical movements, Moessner showcases multiple Hellenistic texts and rhetorical tropes to spotlight the various signals Luke provides his readers of the multiple ways his sequel Acts will follow "all that Jesus began to do and to teach" (Acts 1:1) and, consequently, bring coherence to this dominant block of the New Testament that has long been split apart. By collapsing the world of Jesus into the words and deeds of his followers, Luke as both Hellenistic historian and 'biblical' theologian re-configures the significance of Israel's "Christ" and the "Reign" of Israel's God for all peoples and places to create a new account of 'Gospel Acts, ' discrete and distinctively different than the "many" already at hand. In the introductions to the major themes of the essays, this noted scholar of the Lukan writings offers epitomes of the main features of Luke's theological 'thought, ' and, in a final Conclusions chapter, weaves together a comprehensive synthesis of this new reading of the whole.

Moessner, David Paul: - David P. Moessner, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, USA.

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